Air Via is Bulgaria’s first private airline after the collapse of communism in 1990. Its chief business is with tourists from West Europe which are in increasing numbers spend their holidays on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. For 15 years, they operated Tupolev TU-154s, now they were replaces by three A320s. Youngest fleet addition is the A320-200 with the registration LZ-MDM which is now released in the 1/500 scale.